Alabaster Book Quotes & Sayings

I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works, will keep on working, because the vast majority of women will never be thin. Thin enough. How well the hope of class mobility keeps every mother dieting, and handing the diets down to her daughter, hoping the daughter may do even better. When you combine this with the fact that many non-white peoples tend to be heavier than white folks, dieting becomes a tool not only in enforcing class but in encouraging assimilation. — Elana Dykewomon

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised. — James Russell Lowell

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty. — William Deresiewicz

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds. — Caspar David Friedrich

They are part of lots of sessions that makeup a hazy part of my session life. — Jim Sullivan

The mistake that many people make, is that they use God to build up a ministry for themselves; they use the name of Jesus to build a church for themselves — Sunday Adelaja